When comparing Gnome Terminal vs Tilda, the Slant community recommends Gnome Terminal for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux terminal emulators?”Gnome Terminal is ranked 4th while Tilda is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Gnome Terminal is:

When using the GNOME Terminal, if you have long lines of text inside it and then you change the window, the text will also automatically update according to the new window size.

Pros

Pro

Content re-flow when window is resized

When using the GNOME Terminal, if you have long lines of text inside it and then you change the window, the text will also automatically update according to the new window size.

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Exceptionally fast

The Gnome Terminal is usually very fast. It boots up very quickly and takes less than a second (averages to 0.25-0.59 seconds) to display files of up to 600 MB.

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Support for tabs

Gnome Terminal allows for the use of tabs by right clicking in the terminal window and selecting open new tab or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+t by default.

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Supports scrolling

You can scroll up and down in Gnome terminal. And if you wish to do so, you can also hide the scrollbar.

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Good integration with other GNOME-Shell apps

Gnome Terminal integrates well into Gnome Desktop, as well as the rest of the core Gnome Shell apps.

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Solarized colors

Gnome Terminal comes with a solarized colorscheme installed and ready to use.

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Notifications upon command completion

This isn't in the current release but in development versions you get notifications when commands are complete. This is great for long-running commands, relieving you from continuously checking to see if your command is done.

Pro

Configurable keybindings

Configurable key bindings can be used for copy-paste, sending SIGINT, switching tabs, and so on.

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Clever memory management

Multiple terminals are managed from one gnome-terminal instance that takes up about 45 MB. Adding on other instances (with 10k lines of used buffer), each terminal requires about 16 MB of memory.

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Drop-down support

Drop-down functionality can be added to Gnome Terminal via an extension.

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Highly customizable

There are tons of customizations you can make: from adding colors to text, turning backgrounds transparent, setting the size to be "maximized", toggling scrollbar on and off, adjusting orientation/borders/animation, etc.

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Few dependencies

Tilda is a very minimal and lean terminal emulator. It requires very few dependencies and the amount of resources needed is small.

Pro

Easily accessible drop-down

The drop-down function in Tilda does not get in the way and can be accessed at any time with a keyboard shortcut.

Pro

Supports transparency

You can monitor information displayed by applications under Tilda.

Pro

Tabs support

Tilda supports tabs. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn.

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Cons

Con

Gnome library dependencies

While not an issue if using Gnome, when trying to use this terminal in other desktop environments or window managers there will be a large amount of dependencies tied to the app making for a large install size. For those trying to keep their desktop lean this may be an issue.

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Heavyweight

To achieve a large amount of speed, Gnome Terminal has to use a relatively large amount of memory to run. It may eat up to 15-30 MB per instance, depending on the task it's doing.

Con

No tab names

Since Gnome 3, the feature for manual renaming of tabs was reaped off.

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No background transparency

While this used to be an option, background transparency has been removed.

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Incomplete vt handling due to using libvte

Con

Restrictive license

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Contains some annoying bugs

Tilda can be buggy at times. For example, if you don't close it before shutdown, it may prompt you to reconfigure it all over again on the next boot.

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